[Bloomberg] ERROR: Unable to extract id

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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

Add -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with, copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

$ youtube-dl -v --write-pages http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-hello-world-russia/
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'--write-pages', u'http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-hello-world-russia/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.12.01
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-16.1.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2.1, ffprobe 3.2.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Bloomberg] 2016-hello-world-russia: Downloading webpage
[Bloomberg] Saving request to 2016-hello-world-russia_http_-_www.bloomberg.com_features_2016-hello-world-russia_.dump
ERROR: Unable to extract id; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 694, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 357, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/bloomberg.py", line 52, in _real_extract
    r'BPlayer\(null,\s*({[^;]+})\);', webpage, 'id'), name)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 660, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract id; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

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If the purpose of this issue is a site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):

• Single video: http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-hello-world-russia/

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Receiving an unable to extract id error when trying to download from Bloomberg.

2016-hello-world-russia_http_-www.bloomberg.com_features_2016-hello-world-russia.dump.txt